For his project ‘De Oförtrutna’ (The Relentless), photographer Christer Björkman pictured Swedish scientists working in the spirit of Carl Linnaeus, the botanist who created the modern taxonomic system that classifies organisms based on appearance. Each scientist brought to the shoot a book and an item of importance to their work

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Regulated clients in financial services and government drove TrendAI’s decision to host its platform in South Africa.

Direct marketers must scrub their databases monthly against a national opt-out registry under rules now in force.

Google’s Personal Intelligence is rolling out first to paying Gemini subscribers, with free users to follow.

TrendAI has enhanced its South African data centre and is planning further deployments across the African continent.

End-to-end data management solutions and services provider Data Management Professionals South Africa (DMP SA) has acquired a stake in local software development specialist Plastic Duck Armada (PDA) to bolster its ability to deliver automated, insight-led data management at scale. DMP SA Managing Director, Iniel Dreyer explains that his company’s collaboration with PDA stretches back more […]

For millions of South Africans, access to healthcare does not begin in a clinic. It begins online, says Mweb.

Tech investor Stafford Masie has urged the communications minister to rebalance the draft National AI Policy fundamentally.

In this open letter to communications minister Solly Malatsi, investor Stafford Masie tears into South Africa’s draft AI policy.

Adobe’s new Firefly AI assistant can autonomously carry out tasks across Photoshop, Illustrator and Premiere Pro.

Irvine, CA- Powerful California Congressional candidate and complex litigator Eric J. Troutman is not mincing words when it comes to the recent spat of politicians stepping down for apparent sexual misconduct. “Its disgusting and insane.” Troutman says. “Both the Republicans and the Democrats are protecting these people and allowing them to prey on young female […]

Madeleine Finlay sits down with co-host and science editor Ian Sample to discuss three eye-catching stories from the week, including a review into the effectiveness of a new class of Alzheimer’s drug that was once hailed as a game-changer in slowing the progress of the disease. Also on the agenda is the news that the world could be heading for a ‘super El Niño’ this summer and a study...

Informal migration, plus climate change and rising numbers of cases globally, are complicating the tireless efforts of the landlocked African country to eradicate the killer disease

The freezer is filled with blue-lidded tubes of cows’ blood, ready to be defrosted and used to feed the colony of mosquitoes. “Also, you can use your arm,” says Nombuso Princess Bhembe, who tends the...

Data assessed from 17 clinical trials of anti-amyloid drugs found no ‘meaningful effect’ on cognitive decline

Drugs that have been hailed as a gamechanger for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease make no noticeable difference to patients, according to an extensive review.

The analysis of clinical trials in people with mild cognitive impairment or mild dementia found that the effects of...

Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

The critical Atlantic current system appears significantly more likely to collapse than previously thought after new research found that climate models predicting the biggest slowdown are the most realistic. Scientists called the new finding “very concerning” as a collapse would...

Science rarely produces identical outcomes. Mistaking this for failure turns caution into an excuse for inaction

A new set of studies out this month suggests that as many as half of all results published in reputable journals in the social sciences can’t be replicated by independent analysis. This is part of a long-running problem across many research fields – most visibly in the social...

Prof Michael Krawczak says the required molecular genetic testing comes at a cost, but should not be ruled out as it was in a recent court case

I read with great astonishment your article regarding the court of appeal’s decision on proving paternity in the case of a child whose father could be either one of a pair of monozygotic twins (Court of appeal says it cannot rule on which identical...